[Vhfcn-l] Vhfcn-l Digest, Vol 104, Issue 24
Ken Hand
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Sat Jan 25 11:44:27 EST 2020
Hopefully you are not on the OFFENSIVE! LOL
Happy Tet?
Ken Hand
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To: Ken Hand <vairmech at aol.com>
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There is only ONE Vietnamese American on this net and today happens to be the Tet.
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Nguyên ND
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> 1. Re: Texas City Trivia (Ralph Stilwell)
> 2. Re: Texas City Trivia (Bill Wells)
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> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 23:17:42 -0500
> From: Ralph Stilwell <rpstilwell at gmail.com>
> To: Darrell Elmore <moeelmore at aol.com>, VHFCN1 Pilots and Crew
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> Subject: Re: [Vhfcn-l] Texas City Trivia
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> Well, my grandfather was born in Rose Bud Texas in 1862. I've never been
> there, but it sounds like a great place, and a visit is on my bucket list!
> Ralph
>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 9:13 PM Darrell Elmore via Vhfcn-l <
>> vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org> wrote:
>>
>> Well my sister used to live in Duplex, when she had kids it doubled the
>> population. Not far from Telephone and just down the road from Honey Grove
>> and Bug Tussle. The coldest town is often Dalhart, the hottest is often
>> Brownsville. We have German speakers in Seminole, Fredricksburg and
>> Meunster. Czech speakers in East! A bit of Cajun is spoken in deep
>> southeast Texas just to even it out.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Grow via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org>
>> To: MoeElmore <MoeElmore at aol.com>
>> Sent: Thu, Jan 23, 2020 8:00 pm
>> Subject: [Vhfcn-l] Texas City Trivia
>>
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>>
>> Subject: Texas City Trivia
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a must read for all Texans, used-to-be Texans, adopted Texans or
>> wanna-be Texans,
>>
>> JUST TEXAS
>>
>> Pep , Texas 79353
>> Smiley , Texas 78159
>> Paradise , Texas 76073
>> Rainbow , Texas 76077
>> Sweet Home , Texas 77987
>> Comfort , Texas 78013
>> Friendship, Texas 76530
>>
>> Love the Sun?
>>
>> Sun City , Texas 78628
>> Sunrise , Texas 76661
>> Sunset, Texas 76270
>> Sundown, Texas 79372
>> Sunray , Texas 79086
>> Sunny Side , Texas 77423
>>
>> Want something to eat?
>>
>> Bacon , Texas 76301
>> Noodle , Texas 79536
>> Oatmeal , Texas 78605
>> Turkey , Texas 79261
>> Trout , Texas 75789
>> Sugar Land , Texas 77479
>> Salty, Texas 76567
>> Rice , Texas 75155
>> Pearland , Texas 77581
>> Orange , Texas 77630
>> And top it off with:
>> Sweetwater , Texas 79556
>>
>> Why travel to other states? Texas has them all!
>>
>> Detroit , Texas 75436
>> Cleveland , Texas 75436
>> Colorado City , Texas 79512
>> Denver City , Texas 79323
>> Klondike , Texas 75448
>> Nevada , Texas 75173
>> Memphis , Texas 79245
>> Miami , Texas 79059
>> Boston , Texas 75570
>> Santa Fe , Texas 77517
>> Tennessee Colony , Texas 75861
>> Reno , Texas 75462
>> Pasadena , Texas 77506
>> Columbus , Texas 78934
>>
>> Feel like traveling outside the country?
>>
>> Athens , Texas 75751
>> Canadian, Texas 79014
>> China , Texas 77613
>> Egypt , Texas 77436
>> Ireland , Texas 76538
>> Italy , Texas 76538
>> Turkey , Texas 79261
>> London , Texas 76854
>> New London , Texas 75682
>> Paris , Texas 75460
>> Palestine , Texas 75801
>>
>> No need to travel to Washington D.C.
>>
>> Whitehouse , Texas 75791
>>
>> We even have a city named after our planet!
>>
>> Earth , Texas 79031
>>
>> We have a city named after our state
>>
>> Texas City , Texas 77590
>>
>> Exhausted?
>>
>> Energy , Texas 76452
>>
>> Cold?
>> Blanket , Texas 76432
>> Winters, Texas
>>
>> Like to read about History?
>>
>> Santa Anna , Texas
>> Goliad , Texas
>> Alamo , Texas
>> Gun Barrel City , Texas
>> Robert Lee , Texas
>>
>> Need Office Supplies?
>>
>> Staples, Texas 78670
>>
>> Want to go into outer space?
>>
>> Venus , Texas 76084
>> Mars , Texas 79062
>>
>> You guessed it.. It's on the state line.
>>
>> Texline , Texas 79087
>>
>> For the kids...
>> Kermit , Texas 79745
>> Elmo , Texas 75118
>> Nemo , Texas 76070
>> Tarzan , Texas 79783
>> Winnie , Texas 77665
>> Sylvester , Texas 79560
>>
>> Other city names in Texas , to make you smile........
>>
>> .
>> Frognot , Texas 75424
>> Bigfoot , Texas 78005
>> Hogeye , Texas 75423
>> Cactus , Texas 79013
>> Notrees , Texas 79759
>> Best, Texas 76932
>> Veribest , Texas 76886
>> Kickapoo , Texas 75763
>> Dime Box , Texas 77853
>> Old Dime Box , Texas 77853
>> Telephone , Texas 75488
>> Telegraph , Texas 76883
>> Whiteface , Texas 79379
>> Twitty, Texas 79079
>>
>>
>> And our favorites...
>>
>> Cut n Shoot, Texas
>> Gun Barrell City , Texas
>> Hoop And Holler, Texas
>> Ding Dong, Texas and, of course,
>> Muleshoe , Texas
>>
>> Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about folks from Texas ...
>>
>> If someone in a Lowe's store offers you assistance and they don't work
>> there, you may live in Texas ;
>>
>> If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in
>> Texas ;
>>
>> If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a
>> wrong number, you may live in Texas ;
>>
>> If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you
>> may live in Texas ;
>>
>> If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Texas ;
>>
>> If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may
>> live in Texas ;
>>
>> If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both
>> unlocked, you may live in Texas ;
>>
>> If you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use
>> them, you may live in Texas
>>
>> If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph --you're going 80 and
>> everybody's passing you, you may live in Texas ;
>>
>> If you find 60 degrees 'a little chilly,' you may live in Texas ;
>>
>> If you actually understand these jokes, and share them with all your
>> Texas friends, you definitely live in Texas ..
>>
>> Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas .
>>
>> 1. Beaumont to El Paso : 742 miles
>> 2... Beaumont to Chicago : 770 miles
>> 3... El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
>> 4... World's first rodeo was in Pecos , July 4, 1883.
>> 5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America
>> built over water. Destroyed by Hurricane Ike -2008!
>> 6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the
>> first full-time coach at Rice University in Houston .
>> 7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in
>> North America
>> 8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America 's only
>> remaining flock of whooping cranes.
>> 9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
>> 10. The worst natural disaster in U.S.... history was in 1900, caused by
>> a hurricane, in which over 8,000 lives were lost on Galveston Island .
>> 11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20,1969, was " Houston ,"
>> but the space center was actually in Clear Lake City at the time.
>> 12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island ..
>> 13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall record of 43' in 24
>> hours in and around Alvin in July of 1979...
>> 14. Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by TREATY, (known as the
>> Constitution of 1845 by the Republic of Texas to enter the Union ) instead
>> of by annexation. This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same height as
>> the U.S. Flag, and may divide into 5 states.
>> 15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.
>> 16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.
>> 17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr
>> Pepper..
>> 18. Texas has had six capital cities:
>> Washington -on- the Brazos, Harrisburg , Galveston ,Velasco, West
>> Columbia and Austin ...
>> 19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the U.S. which is
>> taller than the Capitol Building in Washington DC (by 7 feet).
>> 20. The San Jacinto Monument is the tallest free standing monument in
>> the world and it is taller than the Washington monument.
>> 21. The name ' Texas ' comes from the Hasini Indian word 'tejas' meaning
>> friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas ..
>> 22. The State Mascot is the Armadillo (an interesting bit of trivia
>> about the armadillo is they always have four babies. They have one egg,
>> which splits into four, and they either have four males or four females.).
>> 23. The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the Astrodome in Houston .
>>
>> Cowboy's Ten Commandments
>>
>> (Posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Fairlie , Texas)
>>
>> 1) Just one God.
>> (2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.
>> (3) No telling tales or gossipin'.
>> (4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.
>> (5) Put nothin' before God.
>> (6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal.
>> (7) No killin'.
>> (8) Watch yer mouth.
>> (9) Don't take what ain't yers.
>> (10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff.
>>
>> Y'all git all that?
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